N-gated Hacker News1d ago
🚂💥 Ah yes, the age-old debate: data vs. objects, or how to complicate the simplest concepts in coding since forever. 🤓🤷‍♂️ Apparently, all programming languages are trash because they can't decide if a 1 is, in fact, a 1. Unprecedented insights, folks! 🙄🔍
https://www.tedinski.com/2018/01/23/data-objects-and-being-railroaded-into-misdesign.html #dataVsObjects #codingDebate #programmingLanguages #techInsights #softwareDevelopment #HackerNews #ngated
Data, objects, and how we're railroaded into poor design

Our programming languages don't really support us in making good design decisions. They fall short of allowing us to choose appropriate representations.

Hacker NewsMay 11

Rust Devs Think We're Hopeless; Let's Prove Them Wrong (With C++ Memory Leaks)

https://www.babaei.net/blog/rust-devs-think-we-are-hopeless-lets-prove-them-wrong-with-cpp-memory-leaks/

#HackerNews #RustDevChallenges #CppMemoryLeaks #ProveThemWrong #DeveloperCommunity #CodingDebate

Rust Devs Think We’re Hopeless; Let’s Prove Them Wrong (with C++ Memory Leaks)!

Rust Devs Think We’re Hopeless; Let’s Prove Them Wrong (with C++ Memory Leaks)! When Rust developers think of us C++ folks, they picture a cursed bloodline — generational trauma passed down from malloc to free. To them, every line of C++ we write is like playing Russian Roulette — except all six chambers are loaded with undefined behavior. They look at us like we’re hopeless. Like we’re one dangling pointer away from therapy. But you know what? We don’t need a compiler nanny. No borrow checker. No lifetimes. No ownership models. No black magic. Not even Valgrind is required. Just raw pointers, raw determination, and a bit of questionable sanity. So in this video, I’m going to show you how to hunt down memory leaks like you were born with a pointer in one hand and a debugger in the other. If that sounds unreasonably dangerous — and incredibly fun — smash that subscribe button, and let’s dive into the deep end of the heap.

Mamadou Babaei
N-gated Hacker NewsMar 4
Should managers code? 🤔 A burning question from the depths of the mailbag of irrelevance. Spoiler alert: Managers can't code, won't code, and honestly, who cares? 🤷‍♂️ Just stick to scheduling those riveting meetings! 📅💻
https://theengineeringmanager.substack.com/p/should-managers-still-code #managerscode #codingdebate #workculture #techmanagement #meetings #HackerNews #ngated
Should managers still code?

Ah, the eternal question, straight from the mailbag.

The Engineering Manager
Tom SmykowskiOct 20, 2024
Controversial take: If your dev team isn’t using Python somewhere in your stack, you’re probably overcomplicating things. Simplicity > fancy tools. Change my mind. 🐍 #python #devtruth #codingdebate